Practical Nurse - Patient Aligned Care Team in Montrose

The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) provides patient‑centered care to the Montrose outpatient clinics using the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) model. Using a broad working knowledge of nursing procedures, the LPN will provide a broad range of direct, age‑specific patient care activities and supportive services under the guidance and supervision of the Registered Nurse.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains knowledge and skills to care for a wide range of patients, including those with acute and chronic illnesses in the clinic setting.
• Demonstrates knowledge and ability to provide a full range of practical nursing care to patients with a variety of physical and/or behavioral problems.
• Demonstrates understanding of disease condition and the nursing process.
• Rooms patients into the clinic exam room, interviews patient and/or significant other, and documents intake data as per policy.
• Obtains vital signs, weight and height and completes all nursing clinical reminders thoroughly and accurately per due dates and clinical appropriateness, including Suicide Screening, Alcohol Use Screening, Tobacco Use Screening, Pain Screening, Frail/Elderly Screening, etc., and shares information with provider and PACT teams to develop and implement action plans.
• Demonstrates knowledge, skill, and ability to recognize and effectively intervene in potential or emergent situations; Rapid Response, Code Blue/Green.
• Participates in PACT huddle, answers secure messages, performs discharge phone calls, urgent room follow‑up phone calls, answers Outlook messages for the PACT team and responds to nurse triage messages for the PACT team.
• Demonstrates knowledge of standard precautions, medical asepsis, and sterile technique with the ability to correctly apply these principles and techniques in the clinic setting.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary PACT team in development, implementation, and evaluation of the treatment plan to promote patient participation and foster patient self‑management.
• Includes patient and/or family in treatment planning and goal setting.
• Performs venipuncture using two patient identifiers, aseptic technique and appropriate accessioning.
• Sets up, cleans up, processes specimens and transports them to the lab per hospital SOP/Policies.

Work Schedule: Monday 10:00 am–7:30 pm. Tuesday–Friday 8:00 am–4:30 pm.

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 21X34A

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized.